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Richard Avedon

Unidentified Migrant Worker, Eagle Pass, Texas, December 10, 1979

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Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

Unidentified Migrant Worker, Eagle Pass, Texas, December 10, 1979


gelatin silver print, mounted to aluminum, signed and editioned '2/6' in ink and with the photographer's 'In the American West' stamp and a Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, label on the reverse, framed, a National Portrait Gallery exhibition label on the reverse

image: 56¼ by 45 in. (142.9 by 114.3 cm.)

frame: 61½ by 49 in. (156.2 by 124.5 cm.)

Executed in 1979, printed in 1985.

Hamiltons Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

Washington, D. C., National Portrait Gallery, The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers, November 2017 - September 2018

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Turning the Page, April 2024 - January 2025

Richard Avedon, In the American West (New York, 2005), unpaginated

David C. Ward and Dorothy Moss, The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers (Washington, D. C.: National Portrait Gallery, 2017), p. 191